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New Product Varieties and the Measurement of International Prices
- R. Feenstra
- Economics
- 1994
The high income elasticity of demand often estimated for U.S. imports may be a spurious result of omitting new product varieties from the import price indexes. The purpose of this paper is to… Expand
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Globalization, Outsourcing, and Wage Inequality
- R. Feenstra, G. Hanson
- Economics
- 1 January 1996
There is considerable debate over whether international trade has contributed to the declining economic fortunes of less skilled workers. One issue that has become lost in the current discussion is… Expand
Foreign Investment, Outsourcing and Relative Wages
- R. Feenstra, G. Hanson
- Economics
- 1 May 1995
In this paper we examine the reduction in the relative employment and wages of unskilled workers in the U.S. during the 1980's. We argue that a contributing factor to this decline was rising imports… Expand
Advanced international trade : theory and evidence
- R. Feenstra
- Economics
- 2004
Trade is a cornerstone concept in economics worldwide. This updated second edition of the essential graduate textbook in international trade brings readers to the forefront of knowledge in the field… Expand
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World Trade Flows: 1962-2000
- R. Feenstra, R. Lipsey, H. Deng, A. Ma, Hengyong Mo
- Business
- 1 January 2005
We document a set of bilateral trade data by commodity for 1962-2000, which is available from www.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data). Users must agree not to resell or… Expand
Integration of Trade and Disintegration of Production in the Global Economy
- R. Feenstra
- Economics
- 1 April 1998
The last few decades have seen a spectacular integration of the global economy through trade. The rising integration of world markets has brought with it a disintegration of the production process,… Expand
The Impact of Outsourcing and High-Technology Capital on Wages: Estimates For the United States, 1979–1990
- R. Feenstra, G. Hanson
- Economics
- 1 August 1999
We estimate the relative influence of trade versus technology on wages in a "large-country" setting, where technological change affects product prices. Trade is measured by the foreign outsourcing of… Expand
Border Effects and the Gravity Equation: Consistent Methods for Estimation
- R. Feenstra
- Economics
- 1 November 2002
The CES monopolistic competition model is an especially convenient way to derive the gravity equation, especially when we allow for transport costs and other trade barriers. In that case, we need to… Expand
Global Production Sharing and Rising Inequality: A Survey of Trade and Wages
- R. Feenstra, G. Hanson
- Economics
- 1 July 2001
We argue that trade in intermediate inputs, or 'global production sharing,' is a potentially important explanation for the increase in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in the U.S.… Expand
Functional equivalence between liquidity costs and the utility of money
- R. Feenstra
- Economics
- 1 March 1986
We demonstrate a functional equivalence between using real balances as an argument of the utility function and entering money into liquidity costs which appear in the budget constraint. The liquidity… Expand